A reference to Macrobius by Chretien de Troyes links his own writing and, by implication, medieval writing in general, to the larger late antique and medieval Latin conception of rewriting as original imitation.

Douglas Kelly, Ph.D. (1962) in French, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor Emeritus of French and Medieval Studies there. He has published extensively on medieval literature, especially on medieval poetics and its use for the interpretation of French and Latin writing.